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Increase Mobility in Your Upper Body
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
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Ab Workout
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
Three Part Ab Workout
This is a way to strengthen your abs and work all the muscles in those hard to work lower abs and obliques. The exercises can be done with a medicine ball that best suits your strength. If this is too much weight, try doing the exercise without weight at all and go through the motions of it.
Exercise 1: Lay straight on your back with your arms above your head holding the medicine ball and your legs straight. Keeps …
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Get Torque in Your Golf Swing – Fitness Tip
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
This exercise is a great way to create more mobility in the Thoracic Spine. In the alternate pattern of stability and mobility in the golf swing the Thoracic region is a key part of mobility and the Scapula region supports with stability. The Thoracic Spine and the Scapulas can reverse their roles in the golf swing because of a lack of mobility and can cause serious inconsistencies.
This exercise is in three parts. All three start on your …
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Are you “Master’s” Ready?
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
Are you “ Master’s” Ready ?
I don’t know about you but when they start advertising for the Masters Golf Tournament, I get a little excited. To me, the Masters is the official start of the golf season and it’s my Christmas time. I see visions of Club championships, local member guests, CGA events, area Pro Am’s dancing in my head. The scenes of the perfectly manicured Augusta National Golf Club, the music CBS plays only for the tournament, and of …
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Box Step Ups – Strengthen Your Glutes
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
This exercise is a great way to create more hip turn in the golf swing. The equipment needed is a step stool, free weight or medicine ball. Choose the weight based on your physical abilities. Holding onto a free weight or medicine ball for resistance, place your left leg up on a step stool. Without rotating your trunk or upper body, stand up with your left leg and rotate your hips around your …
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Are your workouts productive in your pursuit of becoming a better golfer?
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
The question presented in the title is one you have to ask yourself. A lot of you have gym memberships. When you go to the gym for a work out, what are you working on? Do you have a specific fitness plan? Do you keep track of your progress?
I work with a lot of athletes throughout the year and spend a great deal of time researching physical fitness. …
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Ab Workout: Swimmer Planks
by Director of Fitness, Ted Bonham
Planks are a great way to build your core strength and stability in the upper body. The Titleist Performance Institiute believes the Glutes are the king of the golf muscles while the core is the Queen. Mobility and Stability in these areas are key to a sound golf swing.
There are several different plank positions for an exercise routine, swimmer planks are one of the more dynamic and here is how to perform them. Starting in the plank position on a mat, …
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Fitness and the New Years Resolution
by Director of Fitness Ted Bonham
New Year’s resolutions are a way to start the year on the right foot, or you may say, it’s a mulligan for the previous year’s resolution that didn’t quite reach your goal.
I am not a big believer in New Year’s resolutions because I believe they set you up for failure. When you fail a goal that you set, numerous things happen such as stress, depression, over eating, wanting to listen to Barbara Streisand or Cher music.
The same is true for …
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Why Choose Fitness for Golf & Tennis?
by Ted Bonham, Director of Fitness IFPA, CTPI-1
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Why fitness? Especially golf and or tennis specific fitness? This is the great debate between your mind and your body. By the way, your mind usually wins and your body suffers.
I asked a good friend of mine, who I train, this very question. Jim is a very dedicated individual especially to his golf game and has realized …
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Create Your Own Stretching Pole
by Ted Bonham – Titleist Performance Institute Certified Director of Fitness
A fitness, stretching pole is a great tool to add to your fitness equipment. There are many great stretching devises on the market today that range in prices from affordable to ” you’ve got to be kidding me”. I have a way to make your own stretching pole for under ten dollars.
Go to any home center, ( Home Depot, Lowes, Ace Hardware ), and purchase either a one inch PVC pipe …
